There's nothing mysterious about AI. It's matrix and tensor ops which have been used for decades now. Hardware is pretty good at such things because memory accesses are nicely arranged.
Oh someone else is as silly as I am? I hacked this together a few months ago as well! I guess I should have written it up.
I’ve been getting llama.cpp going on various weird, old systems as I can and qwen3.c where llama.cpp has no hope. So far, I’ve tried various sparc generations (IIi, IIIi, Fujitsu M10, and an Oracle M7), a C8900 PA-RISC, some riscv boards, an Alpha 21264, POWER 9, and many X86 and ARM systems of course.
I still have my old PowerBook G4 from 2005, with some not-that-old Debian currently installed. Every time my main laptop goes out commission, I get the G4 back out and use it for a few days. It's good enough for most of my work, though modern web-browsing is a challenge. (Maybe one that somebody has solved, I haven't dug at all.)
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[ 13.7 ms ] story [ 28.5 ms ] threadAnd anyway, the source article seems a bit more interesting.
https://www.theresistornetwork.com/2025/03/thinking-differen...
I’ve been getting llama.cpp going on various weird, old systems as I can and qwen3.c where llama.cpp has no hope. So far, I’ve tried various sparc generations (IIi, IIIi, Fujitsu M10, and an Oracle M7), a C8900 PA-RISC, some riscv boards, an Alpha 21264, POWER 9, and many X86 and ARM systems of course.
I think that's the 12" G4 - still my favorite laptop ever, in terms of looks and form factor.